For many communities in the Lowcountry, “all together now” has taken on a more purposeful meaning. Seven local communities — Long Cove Club, Belfair, Palmetto Dunes, Hampton Hall Club, Colleton River Club, Hampton Lake and Moss Creek — have established funds with Community Foundation of the Lowcountry.

If you ask people what they’d do differently in life “if they’d only known,” you’ll hear a lot of people (especially those of us a little closer to retirement age) say they wish they’d made better financial choices and plans for their future.

June is the time of year when parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles are bursting with pride as they watch their child, grandchild, niece or nephew walk across the stage to receive their college diploma.

Do you wake up every day feeling blessed to live in the Lowcountry? I know for the past 21 years that I’ve lived here,